Small gigs without a PA. I have an older Charvel fusion w factory pups. I like 80's hair bands, megadeth, metallica, poison with some country thrown in there. Basically just jammin in the garage with friends. I don;t have any pedals because of the Vyper. What would be must have pedals?

trust me when I say...you don't need a half stack. you just want one! get yourself a nice 100w or 50w combo. It will be plenty for what you need it for, and much easier to transport! I shall recoment a Marshall JVM combo. Great versatile amp with tons of gain on tap.

trust me when I say...you don't need a half stack. you just want one! get yourself a nice 100w or 50w combo. It will be plenty for what you need it for, and much easier to transport! I shall recoment a Marshall JVM combo. Great versatile amp with tons of gain on tap.

No you don't need one, but if he wants one then thats fine. I have owned 1/2 stacks for the last 12 yrs. If you have the room for it and can transport it, get one if you want.

You can find some really great combos for cheap, so it is also a good idea not to dissmiss a combo

I have a 100 watt peavey vyper with 2-12's. I want something with a better sound and more simplicity. I spend more time adjusting the amp than I do actually playing. I typically only use the tube screamer pedal through the 6505 amp setting on my vyper. A little reverb and delay also. Are the multi-effects pedals any good. I am getting back into playing after a 20 yr abscence. I guess I will take my guitar down to guitar center and try a few.

Look into the Carvin X-series, like the X100B heads. I have an XV112 100w combo and it's one of the few amps I've played with a great clean channel AND a great distortion channel. Tons of gain, more than you'll ever need for 80s metal, and a kickass clean channel for country or blues.

EDIT: Of course that's quite a bit below your budget. Still a good option if you wanted to save your money.

The Carvin X100B would also be very good to check out, as CaptDin mentioned (I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise).

The Peavey Ultra Plus/XXX/JSX might work for you. Try them if you can find them.

Mesa Mark IV would probably be a good choice. The V would be better, I'm not sure if they go for $1500 or not. I'm not familiar with the versions before IV, so I can't comment on how god they are for thrash or not.

Nearly everyone on here who bought a V3 said channel 3 was missing something and returned or sold it.

I think that's more the case with the V3M. Have people said that about the V3 as well? I was definitely NOT impressed by the V3M, and I know others have come on here and said the same thing about that amp.

In addition to the other great suggestions, I'd look at the Carvin Legacy 3 and the EVH 5150 III 50 watt. I'm not sure how suitable the Legacy is for metal though. Also, a common problem with the EVH seems to be that there is a volume jump between channel 1 and 2, which is hard to work around due to the shared EQ. I think that could be solved by an EQ in the loop on channel 1 (MXR 10 band or Boss GE-7, Danelectro Fish n Chips if you want something cheap but decent). I'm actually saving for the EVH at the moment, and I'm probably going to run an EQ in the loop.

Hope that helps!

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